Disabling OK-msg in mame?

[delta]

Is the any way to get rid of the "type OK to agrre"-message for each game in mame?

A little annoying to have that in the cab, specially when having to keyboard *inside* the cab

[SirPoonga]

First, you can push left then right on player one joystick.
It is in the mame faq:)

Otherwise recompile mame.  It isn't hard to do.  First setup your computer and do a normail compile according to the instructions at mame.net.
Once you have a working EXE you can do changes and recompile.

To get rid of the OK:
Open mame.c in a text editor
Find the section

                        if (settingsloaded == 0)
                        {
                              /* if there is no saved config, it must be first time we run this game, */
                              /* so show the disclaimer. */
                              if (showcopyright(real_scrbitmap)) goto userquit;
                        }

                        if (showgamewarnings(real_scrbitmap) == 0)      /* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
                        {
...
                        }

userquit:

Comment out those lines by puttin a // in front of each line.  So it will be like this:

//                        if (settingsloaded == 0)
//                        {
                              /* if there is no saved config, it must be first time we run this game, */
                              /* so show the disclaimer. */
//                              if (showcopyright(real_scrbitmap)) goto userquit;
//                        }

//                        if (showgamewarnings(real_scrbitmap) == 0)      /* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
//                        {
                              init_user_interface();

                              /* disable cheat if no roms */
                              if (!gamedrv->rom) options.cheat = 0;

                              if (options.cheat) InitCheat();

                              if (Machine->drv->nvram_handler)
                              {
                                    void *f;

                                    f = osd_fopen(Machine->gamedrv->name,0,OSD_FILETYPE_NVRAM,0);
                                    (*Machine->drv->nvram_handler)(f,0);
                                    if (f) osd_fclose(f);
                              }

                              cpu_run();            /* run the emulation! */

                              if (Machine->drv->nvram_handler)
                              {
                                    void *f;

                                    if ((f = osd_fopen(Machine->gamedrv->name,0,OSD_FILETYPE_NVRAM,1)) != 0)
                                    {
                                          (*Machine->drv->nvram_handler)(f,1);
                                          osd_fclose(f);
                                    }
                              }

                              if (options.cheat) StopCheat();

                              /* save input ports settings */
                              save_input_port_settings();
//                        }

//userquit:

Save, then just recompile mame again.

[Relker]

Cool!  Thanks for the info.  I have a question if you don't mind.  

Is there a way to compile Mame so that the display size stays the same? Or maybe limit the resolution?

There are some games that I play that are huge.  I can only see about a quarter of the screen.  This is for Dos only, the windows version works fine.

Thanks!

[klutzo]

Arcade OS, FYI goes through all OK, and press to continue messages.

[SirPoonga]

Cool!

[jm]

Is there anyway to disable ok in mame32?  thanks!

[ArcadeFX]

Yea, recompile as mentioned above.